iPhone records your every move!

Brenn47 said:
Phone networks aren't mental partners/ex-partners!
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True but they still store and sell (data is anonymised*) phone triangulation data - example being the highway agency who use it, along with other sources, for traffic congestion tracking or road planning.

*If you had enough data then you could potentially, to some extent, identify and track an individual.

asim18 said:
That's cell geo-location/triangulation data right?
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Yup; networks don't have direct access to the GPS module within your phone.
 
This is old news really. I recommend people read the privacy policy regarding location services. And of course, beware of software updates sneaking new default settings onto your devices.
 
None of my google accounts have previous location data and not done anything specifically to disable location services (though don't turn on GPS unless actually using it).
 
Kreeeee said:
So does Andrioid: https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0
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Well according to my phone I took a very short, very specific trip to China last month:

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(I didn't)
 
Brenn47 said:
We had no equipment to record all the users location data, there was a cabinet full of laptops that passed calls to a *listening post* but you had to sign the Official Secrets act to have access to the cabinet.
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Even if you worked in NSS I'm sure you wouldn't deny the location field in a CDR exists nor the fact that mobile networks are required to keep this data for longer than the billing cycle.

Networks keep closer tabs if required by warrant (by a mixture of available tech) but cell trig is usually good enough but mostly cell ID is the biggest field kept.
 
Myshra said:
Even if you worked in NSS I'm sure you wouldn't deny the location field in a CDR exists nor the fact that mobile networks are required to keep this data for longer than the billing cycle.

Networks keep closer tabs if required by warrant (by a mixture of available tech) but cell trig is usually good enough but mostly cell ID is the biggest field kept.
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That's active tracking, the person needs to make a call and the start and end cell ids are recorded in the CDR. Passive tracking when the phone's in idle state wasn't done on all phones, just the naughty people, we'd ping a call setup message and get the timing advance back and a server would triangulate it on a map, it wasn't very accurate but you could pinpoint someone to within a few hundred meters. It was also illegally used by rogue managers to check up on their staff when they called in sick. Telecoms was a lot of fun. :)
 
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